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Fig. 2

From: Source mechanism of the 23 October, 2011, Van (Turkey) earthquake (Mw = 7.1) and aftershocks with its tectonic implications

Fig. 2

The fault plane solutions of the main shock and 21 aftershocks of the Van earthquake with the surface ruptures which occurred during the earthquake, A: Alaköy, B: Bardakçı, Ko: Kolsatan, K: Kozluca, Y: Yalnızağaç, S: Satıbey, As: Aşıt, Gu: Gülsünler, Go: Göllü, To: Topaktaş, T: Tabanlı, Vo: Van organized industrial site. G: Gedikbulak, Tr: Topaktaş road, U: United States Geological Survey (USGS), D: Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency of Turkey (DEMP), E: European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), K: Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute (KOERI). Focal mechanisms reported by different agencies for the mainshock (event no. 1) are also shown on the top of the figure (GFZ: Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, Germany; INGV: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica and Vulcanologia; HRV: Harvard University; USGS: United States Geological Survey. The ruptured parts are shown with the straight lines and unruptured parts are shown with the dashed lines, the numbers on the map and above the focal mechanism indicate events given in Table 3).

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